"I want to make one thing clear, I had no idea prior to February 2016 that my husband was addicted to child pornography. I had believed for a long time that he was suffering from a mental illness and I had attempted on numerous occasions to get him help.

"However Gary had consistently rebuffed or sabotaged these attempts and I thought at the time that was another symptom of a mental illness. Gary does not have a mental illness, his behaviours stem from something much more sinister."

She said she and her husband were still married, as he refused to sign divorce papers.